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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / October 2004PB G3 won't sleep - ever
My PB G3 (333 bronze keyboard) has decided to stop sleeping. Won't sleep from the sleep timer, won't sleep from a menu command, won't sleep when the cover is closed. It ignores the sleep timer, crashes from a menu sleep command, crashes when the cover is closed. OS 9.2.2, file sharing on or off, no obvious background processes that should keep it awake. Works ok otherwise. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, RG -- > My PB G3 (333 bronze keyboard) has decided to stop sleeping. Won't > sleep from the sleep timer, won't sleep from a menu command, won't [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Any suggestions are welcome. WIld guess department:- Do you have a USB hub connected to it?  SignatureI thought I would be the last on earth to mung my e-mail address. fsnospam$elliott$$ > > My PB G3 (333 bronze keyboard) has decided to stop sleeping. Won't > > sleep from the sleep timer, won't sleep from a menu command, won't [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > WIld guess department:- > Do you have a USB hub connected to it? Yes. But the problem doesn't go away if I start up and try to sleep without the hub. > > > My PB G3 (333 bronze keyboard) has decided to stop sleeping. Won't > > > sleep from the sleep timer, won't sleep from a menu command, won't [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Yes. But the problem doesn't go away if I start up and try to sleep > without the hub. Oh Damn! There was a famous insomnia problem discussed on uk.comp.sys.mac that was caused by a particular powered hub. Try googling that group.w SignatureI thought I would be the last on earth to mung my e-mail address. fsnospam$elliott$$ > > > > My PB G3 (333 bronze keyboard) has decided to stop sleeping. Won't > > > > sleep from the sleep timer, won't sleep from a menu command, won't [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > problem discussed on uk.comp.sys.mac that was caused by a particular > powered hub. Try googling that group.w Ok, found it. Thanks for the ideas. Turns out that there was an app keeping it awake after all. The fax software had the modem waiting to receive calls. A change of settings to turn that off and all is well again. This software (Fax STF, v5) seems to be consistently buggy and crash prone. Even with the modem on it should have been possible to force sleep without a crash. Any ideas for cheap, but reliable, OS 9 fax software? [snip: it was the fax software] > This software (Fax STF, v5) seems to be consistently buggy and crash > prone. Even with the modem on it should have been possible to force > sleep without a crash. Any ideas for cheap, but reliable, OS 9 fax > software? You should check the group's archives (using my name in addition to the obvious keywords might help narrow things down), as this subject has come up in the past. I've looked around on one or two occasions (usually prompted by the afore-mentioned threads) and don't recall finding any free- or shareware FAX programs for OS 9 other than 'STF, but I may simply have forgotten. There are a number of good ones for OS 10.1 (I think) and 10.2, should you venture there. SignatureLater. johajohn@indianahoosiers.edu Let 'indiana' be a 'noln', and 'hoosiers' be a 'solkk'. Leave only the 'noln' and .edu after the @ to reply . |
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